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Event: French F1 Grand Prix
Track: Paul Ricard Circuit

Weather: dry  29.2°C
Tarmac: dry  41.8°C
Humidity : 44.7%
Wind : 0.4 m/s N
Pressure: 966.9 bar

Max Verstappen scored his 5th F1 pole position of his career, during the 2021 French Grand Prix qualifying session today. The Red Bull driver will start from P1 for the first time on Paul Ricard. It was the 65th pole for Red Bull Racing.

The pole time of last French GP was a 1:28.319 min driven by Lewis Hamilton for the Mercedes team back in 2019.

Qualifying Times 2021 French GP

PosNoDriverTeamQ1Q2Q3Laps
133Max VerstappenRed Bull1:31.0011:31.0801:29.99016
244Lewis HamiltonMercedes1:31.2371:30.7881:30.24820
377Valtteri BottasMercedes1:31.6691:30.7351:30.37616
411Sergio PérezRed Bull1:31.5601:30.9711:30.44516
555Carlos SainzFerrari1:32.0791:31.1461:30.84019
610Pierre GaslyAlphaTauri1:31.8981:31.3531:30.86822
716Charles LeclercFerrari1:32.2091:31.5671:30.98720
84Lando NorrisMcLaren1:31.7331:31.5421:31.25218
914Fernando AlonsoAlpine1:32.1581:31.5491:31.34017
103Daniel RicciardoMcLaren1:32.1811:31.6151:31.38221
1131Esteban OconAlpine1:32.1391:31.73610
125Sebastian VettelAston Martin1:32.1321:31.76712
1399Antonio GiovinazziAlfa Romeo1:32.7221:31.81313
1463George RussellWilliams1:33.0601:32.06513
1547Mick SchumacherHaas1:32.9427
166Nicholas LatifiWilliams1:33.0627
177Kimi RäikkönenAlfa Romeo1:33.3547
189Nikita MazepinHaas1:33.5547
NC18Lance StrollAston Martin2:12.5847
RT22Yuki TsunodaAlphaTaurino time2
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